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new here with a question on multilingual support :) - El Forum - 04-21-2010 [eluser]Unknown[/eluser] hello! I am new to CI. I am a bit rusty on php (I am not a professional webdesign / developer) and I like the framework so far! jsut a quick question: has anybody found a good tutorial explaining how to develop a multilingual website? (I need 1 asian language + 1 european). I've never done that before and I am not too sure on how to handle this... (I'd like a user to be redirected automatically to the correct language page if a session is alive or let him choose the language by clicking on a flag) thx! new here with a question on multilingual support :) - El Forum - 04-21-2010 [eluser]n0xie[/eluser] Use UTF-8 to take care of the character sets: phil sturgeon and elliot haughin made blogs which should get you up to speed. Then take a look at this il8n library. new here with a question on multilingual support :) - El Forum - 04-22-2010 [eluser]Unknown[/eluser] hello n0xie. thanks for your reply. The articles on UTF8 will be quite useful! I am still a bit unsure about il8n. I dont exactly understand how to make good use of it as I need to change images and text in my views depending of the language selected by the user... (selection should be recorded in a session variable I suppose for use next time) if anybody can shed some light that would be great! thx! new here with a question on multilingual support :) - El Forum - 04-22-2010 [eluser]Buso[/eluser] http://codeignitor.com/user_guide/libraries/language.html http://codeignitor.com/user_guide/helpers/language_helper.html this is what I do: 1) $this->config->set_item('language', $this->session->userdata('language')); // dunno if this is the way to go, but works for me 2) $this->lang->load('menu'); // then I load the lang files that I'm gonna use. 'Menu' for instance 3) echo lang('welcome'); // use the lang helper to fetch your lang vars |